Our Genealogy - Person Sheet
Our Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameJames Wallace Colpitts 
93, 1C4R, M
93, 1C4R, MBirth24 Oct 1844, New Brunswick93
Death15 Sep 191993
FatherLewis Edwin Colpitts , M (1813-1852)
MotherCatherine Steeves , F (1818-1891)
Spouses
ChildrenEdwin Henry , M (1872-)
Andrew Weldon , M (1873-1901)
Julia Trueman , F (1875-1936)
Albert James , M (1876-1950)
Elmer Clifford , M (1879-1963)
Laura Jane , F (1882-1948)
Walter Howard , M (1886-1972)
Mary Alice , F (1892-1920)
Notes for James Wallace Colpitts
From the Elmer Colpitts papers:
“My father James W. Colpitts, moved to Point de Bute, N.B. after his marriage and farmed there. They took over the farm of his father-in-law, Henry R. Trueman, and bought some more land. When my father was a young man he learned the tanning business as an apprentice for three years to Elisha Pearson and Solomon Pearson at Hillsborough N.B. This Solomon Pearson married my aunt Mary Colpitts. My father said that he did not follow tanning because he could see that the day of the small tannery, where everything was done by hand, was over. My father was very handy at many kinds of carpenter and repair work. When he built the barns, he hewed the timber for the frames with a broad axe and put the frame together by mortise and tenon.
I must state that I, as well as my brothers and sisters, felt a deed of appreciation for the interest that our parents showed in bringing us up. They were anxious for us to go to school when we were children. I am sure that our life in our home was a great help to us after we left Pt. de Bute.”95
“My father James W. Colpitts, moved to Point de Bute, N.B. after his marriage and farmed there. They took over the farm of his father-in-law, Henry R. Trueman, and bought some more land. When my father was a young man he learned the tanning business as an apprentice for three years to Elisha Pearson and Solomon Pearson at Hillsborough N.B. This Solomon Pearson married my aunt Mary Colpitts. My father said that he did not follow tanning because he could see that the day of the small tannery, where everything was done by hand, was over. My father was very handy at many kinds of carpenter and repair work. When he built the barns, he hewed the timber for the frames with a broad axe and put the frame together by mortise and tenon.
I must state that I, as well as my brothers and sisters, felt a deed of appreciation for the interest that our parents showed in bringing us up. They were anxious for us to go to school when we were children. I am sure that our life in our home was a great help to us after we left Pt. de Bute.”95